Your message dated Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:38:22 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#664484: lintian: Add pedantic check for perl -w warnings has caused the Debian Bug report #664484, regarding lintian: Add pedantic check for perl -w warnings to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist When packing software that contains Perl programs, the upstream author may now be running the latest Perl. In contrast, the Debian follows closely Perl releases. I would be nice if there were a pedantic level check in Lintian to notify about Perl scrips that fail sanity check of: perl -cw PROGRAM This way developers could notice and forward issues to upstream as they package the software. -- System Information Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT Prefers unstable APT policy: (990, unstable) (1, experimental) Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux taiko 3.2.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 06:27:21 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -- Versions of packages `lintian depends on'. Depends: binutils 2.22-6 GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities bzip2 1.0.6-1 high-quality block-sorting file compressor - diffstat 1.55-2 produces graph of changes introduced by a dif file 5.10-1 Determines file type using "magic" numbers gettext 0.18.1.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant config files libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg libc-bin 2.13-27 Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries locales 2.13-27 Embedded GNU C Library: National Language (lo libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically generates acce libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 recursively copy Perl datatypes libdigest-sha-perl 5.71-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512, SHA libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.2 Dpkg perl modules libemail-valid-perl 0.187-2 Perl module for checking the validity of Inte libipc-run-perl 0.91-1 Perl module for running processes libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output them in ot libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulate date/time liburi-perl 1.59-1 module to manipulate and access URI strings man-db 2.6.1-1 on-line manual pager patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 Utilities to work with patches perl 5.14.2-9 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files
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--- Begin Message ---Closing this now as it is generally not doable in Lintian. However, you can implement this via a "third-party Lintian check"[1]. ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-3.3.html
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